London - Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse… it turns out we’re wasting up to 170 days of our lives moaning.
The average person spends 14.5 minutes off-loading problems and gripes on friends and family when they get home from work, a survey found.
However, replaying our worries and whines helps relieve stress levels over the course of our working lives, the study claimed.
A poll of 2,000 people found that we are finding it increasingly harder to shed our worries after leaving the office.
Almost half of us, 45 percent, are having a harder time relaxing than we did a year ago.
Time spent moaning about their worries equates to 106 days in the average person’s working life.
Christine Stoddart said: “With work and money pressures mounting for the average family, the living room, and the sofa in particular, have become absolutely vital to the wellbeing of the nation.
“Whatever job you do, from hairdresser to lawyer, the importance of that ‘Ahh’ moment, when you finally get to relax into your evening and switch off, cannot be underestimated.”
Women and young people struggle the most with switching off more than one in two admitting to finding it difficult to leave work behind.
But surprisingly it was hairdressers who have the hardest time unwinding, followed by chefs and nurses.
The research, by furniture chain DFS, found lounging on a sofa was the most popular way to de-stress after work (56 percent), followed by a hot bath (16 percent).
The average person takes 45 minutes to switch off from their working day. - Daily Mail